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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They will accept any negative sum game, they will ruin their own livelihoods and their own lives, if only it helps sad little kings of sad little hills.

  I’m reminded of that book about Authoritarian Personality Types. They did like a model UN / Civilization game kind of thing, where the players represented different countries and could make decisions about policy, war, and so on. There were two groups. Unknown to the players, the people running this experiment put all the people who scored high for authoritarian personality in one group, and everyone else in the other group.

  The group with low authoritarian personality scores? Basically everything was fine. They solved the ozone layer crisis. They were solving world hunger. One guy tried to be a dick and the rest of the group brought him in line.

  The high authoritarian guys? Nuclear apocalypse. They made them sit in the dark for five minutes to think about what they’d done, and let them have a do-over. They still did a shit job. Petty squabbling. Stealing. Out of control climate crisis.

  I don’t think there’s an ethical way to do this in real life, but I do think if you just didn’t allow people with that kind of personality to have any real power, we’d all be much better off.

  It’s also possible i mangled the story because I rewrote it here from memory, but I believe it was in this book: theauthoritarians.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions

  If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic income seems like an obvious solution.

  Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.

  You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.

  On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?

  Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ed Zitron wrote a blog post I’ve been thinking about, where he said that a lot of decisions are made by “business idiots” now. People that don’t really use or understand the product, and don’t really understand the users or their needs. It’s an interesting read, even though the guy is rather verbose: wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I spend too much time here because I knew what that was before I clicked it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cheat on as many people as I want to⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do non-monogamy without cheating. I know many people who do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cheat on as many people as I want to⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a thread about cheating the other day and someone posted that they think cheating is… How did they put it… binary? Like there are social groups where everyone cheats and its normal, and then there are non overlapping groups where no one cheats.

  Ah, I found it: lemm.ee/comment/20529741

  I don’t think I know anyone who cheats in relationships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t tell people are working productively remotely, you have no business being a manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a name for the thing where you’ll make an argument with like 3 distinct points supporting it, and the other person will attack only one, and claim the whole thing is in their favor?

  Like, “You can’t cast two leveled spells in a turn, and you’re silenced, and you’re out of spell slots, so you can’t cast another fireball”

  “No, I have another spell slot from my ring. Fireball time!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a couple games on epic when they were cheaper. I don’t think I’d do so again.

  • the client isn’t as good. It’s slower, the way it paginates your games (I got a lot of free ones) is annoying. It really wants to show you store stuff
  • less (zero?) Linux support
  • don’t think it does the game recording steam does
  • I don’t think it has the remote play together steam does

  There’s probably other stuff I’m not thinking of. It’s just not as good a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they had to pay people for interviews they’d probably be a lot snappier about the process.

  Like, sure, I’ll do nine hours of interviews if you’re paying me $100/hr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we live in a hellscape. Even if they had given him a start date, they can still fire him at any point for no reason. Labor has almost no protections (in the US, at least). It would be only slightly less bad to accept the new job, take it, quit the old job, and then get fired.

  I’d rather we have like basic income, free health care, and public housing, so people don’t need to worry about dying because some capitalist is willing to hire them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure!

  I’d guess maybe the code would be open source, or at least freely shared among everyone who works on it. Then anyone can use their personal computer for the code, like anyone could use their personal guitar to play a song you wrote.

  The computer can then remain personal, and the code itself is treated like the means of production that is collectively owned

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should realize that companies need to compete with each other, and because of that they cant visibly increase the price of a good too much or lower its quality because they will lose sales. Anywhere where this doesn’t happen laws can be written to force them

  Meanwhile, we have “shrinkflation” and consolidation into fewer and fewer companies.

  For vital services, what are you going to do? Not get health care? Not buy fruit anymore?

  The natural end state of private ownership is monopoly/cartel. We’ve done all of this before and it sucked. Being “beholden to customers” doesn’t matter much if they’re a captive market, or there’s really only one seller with no vote

  Maybe if we actually enforced laws about competition it would be better, but good luck getting people to learn from history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont want to drink water from govt owned companies because at that point it truly is authoritarian simply because the govt has way too much power over your life

  I’m pretty sure private for-profit water is absolutely worse than government run water. Everyone can at least nominally vote to change the government. A private org is beholden to no one except shareholders (if they have any), and maybe laws (if they exist, are relevant, and are enforced).

  We already had a gilded age where we learned how low for-profit entities will go. We had saw dust in bread, chalk in milk, and worse.

  For profit food production is giving us price gouging and a water crisis. Would government do better? Well, given the current administration maybe not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my friends described it as there’s difference between private property and personal property. Your toothbrush is personal property. No one cares about that. Your factory where you assemble widgets is private property, where you’re paying people to convert labor into stuff you can sell.

  I should read more left-wing theory. It made sense when he explained it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right-wingers remind me of that meme template where the dog has the ball and it’s going “Throw! No Take! Only throw!”

  They want a thriving economy, but they don’t want to pay people wages. No pay. Only spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We will see who’s society is better

  Did you ever read “A libertarian walks into a bear”? It’s a non-fiction book about a bunch of libertarians that moved to a small town, and used their new voting bloc to try to bring about their libertarian paradise. It went badly. There were bears.

  The author points out how a nearby town that was otherwise very similar. It had prospered during the time libertarians were driving their town into the ground

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something far-left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot about something i read somewhere - “you hate every piece of capitalism but won’t connect the dots to see that’s the picture”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t recognize the source and thought to myself this is either archaic or amateur. It feels purple by modern standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Folks should unionize. The people mandating these “return to office” schemes can’t do shit unless labor cooperates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  in my experience developers are the least class conscious people I know

  This matches my experience and it’s really frustrating. I remember talking to a coworker years ago and he was just like “I wouldn’t join a union. If a job sucks I’ll go somewhere else”. Incredibly optimistic and myopic.

  Well, he’s unemployed now. Working on a video game so maybe he’s still got that bootstraps energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people’s lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.

  There’s a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there’d be less, probably.

  Also, what do you even consider “political”? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn’t political, but a story about two men getting married is. That’s a really low quality analysis there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thankfully I deleted my account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more content-first where facebook/twitter/etc are user-first. I think user-first brings out worse patterns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the top of my head

  • crawl stone soup. Classic traditional rogue like. Less fiddly than net hack, but very good.
  • untitled story (an older game by the main person behind Celeste. Looks like Ms paint but is utterly charming)
  • everything supergiant did. Hades, bastion, pyre
  • binding of Isaac is a classic.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to like Into the Breach but it’s too stressful. Like, when I fuck up in FTL and the crew dies it sucks, but when I fuck up in Into the Breach and all those civilians die? Oof. They were counting on me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify kind of sucks. I’ve been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.